Print: Tavern Sign, Angell 916-4

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Print: Angell 916-4 Tavern sign.: Kathie Ferguson Collection. Images: Kathie Ferguson, unless noted.
Print: Angell 916-4 Tavern sign.

Kathie Ferguson Collection. Images: Kathie Ferguson, unless noted.

Name/Title

Print: Tavern Sign, Angell 916-4

Description

A five-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting a tavern sign for an establishment owned by R. Angell with a founding date of 1808. An eagle with a striped heart-shaped chest shield holds a branch and a ship’s anchor in its talons. This print is listed in the January 1960 Country Prints price list in a choice of antique birch or flat black frames, and appears in the c.1960 brochure “Country Prints in Frames Designed by Robert Darr Wert”; see images. It was offered as a single, double or triple with two other tavern signs, Spencer 916-5, and Prentis 916-6.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints

Date made

circa 1959

Time Period

20th Century

Place

Location

Gill MA.

Continent

North America

Inscription/Signature/Marks

“wert”, lower right corner.

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Mounted print

Height

16 in

Width

9 in

Material

Bleached Linen, Textile Ink

Color

Brown, Brick Red, Yellow Ochre, Green, Black